Windows 8 – Closing Metro Style Apps

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:03:13 +0000

Back in September 2011 I wrote a blog post called Windows 8–Why you don’t close a Metro Style application. Well with the Consumer preview things have changed because now you can directly close a running Metro Style app without going through the task manager.

In the below example I have started a few Metro Style apps and have just switched back to the Task manager,

On the Metro Start screen or Windows Desktop when pointing the mouse to the upper left corner it will first display the last used app, when moving the mouse down (keep the pointer at the edge of the screen) any other running app will appear as well.

Managing Windows 8 Metro Style Apps with DISM

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:55:52 +0000

As mentioned in my earlier post Windows 8 – What’s new in the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool (DISM) the DISM tool now also contains commands for managing metro style applications. When running dism.exe /online /? we find the following APPX servicing commands.

/Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage - Removes AppX packages from the image. AppX packages will not be installed when new user accounts are created.
/Add-ProvisionedAppxPackage - Adds AppX packages to the image and sets them to install for each new user.

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Windows 8 – Closing Metro Style Apps

Managing Windows 8 Metro Style Apps with DISM